The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every poet an advertisement , like those which we find in the French mis- cellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led ...
... mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every poet an advertisement , like those which we find in the French mis- cellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led ...
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... mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the ... minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there 8 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the ... minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there 8 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . 66 Two years after his settlement at Cambridge , he pub- lished " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his contempo- raries seem to have ...
... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . 66 Two years after his settlement at Cambridge , he pub- lished " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his contempo- raries seem to have ...
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... mind to an elabo- rate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of ... minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the ...
... mind to an elabo- rate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of ... minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the ...
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... mind , ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) , he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation ; yet , even in this , not much wrong can be ...
... mind , ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) , he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation ; yet , even in this , not much wrong can be ...
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